The Canadian government said on Tuesday it will allow environmentalist Paul Watson to reapply for his passport, three years after the document was confiscated by German authorities. A spokesman for the Citizenship and Immigration Department denied Watson’s allegation that the decision to withhold the ...

Japan has asked the French government to hand over Paul Watson, founder of the radical anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd, government sources said Monday. The Japan Coast Guard put Watson on an international wanted list on charges of obstructing Japan’s “research whaling” program in the ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was reportedly handed a letter from Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson warning that any resumption of whaling will be vigorously challenged. Watson, who has spearheaded a decade of sometimes violent high-seas opposition to the hunt, said his letter was handed ...